A Tesla Cybertruck labeled as an “RC Engineering Prototype” has been spotted supercharging in Las Vegas, showing why V4 superchargers will be needed as more vehicles get access to the supercharger network.
The Tesla Cybertruck is coming soon, and we’ve been seeing more and more pics and videos of it testing in recent days. We’ve seen it towing a trailer, with the frunk open and liner…
Quick Charge Podcast: September 6, 2023
September 7, 2023
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Hyundai is launching an in-car payments service, Hyundai Pay, for the new and improved 2024 Hyundai Kona electric.
2024 Hyundai Kona electric gets in-car payments
2024 Hyundai Kona electric owners can find and pay for things directly through their vehicle’s…
NASA’s Psyche Mission on Track for Liftoff Next Month
September 7, 2023
The spacecraft’s solar arrays are folded like an envelope into their stowed position. Xenon gas – fuel for the journey to the asteroid belt – is loaded. All four thrusters have passed their final tests. Engineers have confirmed the massive high-gain antenna is set to transmit data. The software is tested and ready. The science instruments – a multispectral imager, magnetometer, and…
NASA’s Oxygen-Generating Experiment MOXIE Completes Mars Mission
September 7, 2023
When the first astronauts land on Mars, they may have the descendants of a microwave-oven-size device to thank for the air they breathe and the rocket propellant that gets them home. That device, called MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment), has…
Potential Supreme Court clash looms over copyright issues in generative AI training data
September 7, 2023
As early as last fall, before ChatGPT had even launched, experts were already predicting that issues related to the copyrighted data that trained generative AI models would unleash a wave of litigation that, like other big technological changes that changed how the…
With the rise of ChatGPT and other tools, enterprises have become bullish on the potential of generative AI. They have started looping in LLMs into their workflows and products, growing not only the business of vendors providing these novel systems but also the demand for talent capable of leveraging them to the fullest.
However, according to a new Workmonitor Pulse survey from staffing company…
Intuit, a financial software company that offers products such as TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, announced on Tuesday that it has launched Intuit Assist, a new artificial intelligence assistant that can generate personalized answers and insights for its customers.
The…
You can now make an AI clone of yourself — or anyone else, living or dead — with Delphi
September 7, 2023
My favorite episode of the hit sci-fi/horror TV series Black Mirror is “Be Right Back,” which premiered 10 years ago now, and captured the alienating experience of a woman cloning her dead ex-boyfriend by using a service that analyzed his social media posts and texts to…
Zoom launches AI Companion to summarize meetings for late attendees
September 7, 2023
Zoom, the videoconferencing and messaging platform, is getting into the built-in generative AI assistant game, according to a blog post on Tuesday. It said it will rebrand its Zoom IQ as the Zoom AI Companion and users already subscribed to the paid services will have access to the new features right away.
Mapping to the challenges found in a normal workday, Zoom says its “AI Companion” can…